Higher Education
NewsWorks Tonight, December 21, 2017
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Air Date: December 21, 2017
Listen 0:00Delaware State University honors departing president at December graduation
More than 200 Delaware State University men and women are headed into the workforce. But before leaving the campus, they received their degrees along with one more pep talk.
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Grand jury: Penn State showed ‘shocking apathy’ about drinking
Read the full grand jury investigation report of Penn State frat pledge Tim Piazza's death.
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Listen 2:03At Millersville University, students are clamoring for cadavers
Biology students fearful that climbing costs could end cadaver studies have mobilized to support the program. But administrators say the activism is unnecessary.
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Listen 2:02College campuses failing to fully decode mental illness
Academia, known at times for fostering innovation and creativity, is also casually slow and bureaucratic when it comes to implementing much-needed radical change.
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After five Temple deaths, students call university’s counseling services inadequate
The university’s director of counseling services says the university's counseling staff is enough to meet the needs of Temple's students.
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Schools cut ties with honorees accused of sexual misconduct
Dozens of U.S. colleges have bestowed honors upon prominent men from Hollywood to the nation's capital who have recently been accused of sexual misconduct.
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Navigating life on campus when you’re on the autism spectrum
All Things Considered is connecting people on either side of a shared experience, and they're letting us eavesdrop on their conversations in our series Been There.
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Grad students in Philly, Newark plan to join nationwide walkout to protest GOP tax plan
The tax plan passed by the House could increase taxes on graduate students by thousands of dollars, when many make less than $20,000 a year.
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Sexual harassment allegations roil Princeton University
Another high-profile instance of sexual harassment has rocked a major institution and students say administrators didn’t act transparently or strongly enough.
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How schools try to help Philly’s thousands of homeless students
This time of year, many of us make an extra effort to reach out to those in need. Less obvious are the needs of homeless children in our schools.
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Listen 5:39Delaware State University's biggest grant — $10.9M for neuroscience research
The money from the National Institutes of Health will go to the Dover school’s Center of Biomedical Research Excellence.
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Facing Title IX discrimination suit, Penn settles with student accused of rape
U.S. District Judge John Padova tossed out several of the plaintiff’s claims, including that the school’s investigation was racially motivated, finding no evidence of that.
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First Temple grad to win Rhodes scholarship accepts with humility, high hopes
Hazim Hardeman is the first Temple University graduate heading to Oxford University in England as a Rhodes scholar.
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Princeton to air out its own legacy of slavery
The Princeton & Slavery Project, a website of research documenting the university's historic record of slavery, will host a symposium on campus this weekend.
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